When you make an observation, you have an obligation.

A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control – your mind and your mouth.

What could be any more correct for any people than to see with their own eyes?

I write-down to speak-up.

Love is learning the song in someone's heart and singing it to them when they forget.

The person who strays away from the source is unroofed and is like dust blown about by the wind.

Your power is in your faith. Keep it and pass it on to other bloods.

Philly is a state of mind I’m always in. The city is truly a character in its own right, and it’s served me well because the people I was exposed to gave me that cultural rootedness.

Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are.

They can’t even think of freedom because they don’t have the language to.

Never confuse fighting for one's government with fighting for one's country.

Keep your head up, your faith strong, and your eyes open for the little miracles all around you…because they are there, just waiting to be discovered.

Sometimes thinking isn't thinking, it's dreaming with eyes wide open.

People connect with me just as a cool, around-the-way type of guy.

I do believe that separation can be a bit damaging at times. To be happy about yourself and your culture and all of that is necessary and fulfilling, but the whole tapestry is what's important.

Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.

Did I think I'd ever be in television shows that people would see or movies? No. But I knew that I was going to be an actor.

Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.

Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.